Word: pattonism
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...that demands respect," Grossman says. "You just follow his every lead." In the Windy City, where the bluster of legendary coaches George Halas and Mike Ditka helped lead Da Bears to glory, Smith is a cool breeze off Lake Michigan. "He's not seeking to show he's General Patton," says Marv Levy, general manager of the Buffalo Bills, a 40-7 victim of a Bears beating. Smith, who spent 20 years as a college and pro assistant before taking the Bears job in 2004, revered coaches who taught rather than tossed chairs. "Screaming was for guys that didn...
...think everyone is looking for who's the hero that is going to get us out of what we're in now. I heard somebody on the radio the other day - one of these talk shows - saying, "Oh, where's the new General Patton? Where's the guy who says, 'I don't give a s--- what the politicians want, this is what we should...
...Jimmy, then 11, chasing his older brother Jack around the house, calling him a "pork-barrel spender"--a deep cut in the McCain home. During that year, when McCain was on the road in New Hampshire, the candidate proudly read aloud from a school report on General George S. Patton Jr. by Jimmy that he had faxed to his father: "The Tanks Will Roll...
...herself off." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity after two California Department of Medical Health doctors testified that she was insane and had confessed to the attack." She was sentenced to 8-1/2 years in Patton. She stayed there until...
...Haddad sued the state of California for $1,750,000, arguing that Bettie should not have been released from Patton and that a prospective landlord should have been alerted to her history of violence. The state settled for $70,000, which, after lawyers' fees, brought Haddad about $40,000 - hardly enough, she told Foster, to cover her medical expenses. When he interviewed her in 1994, she still had no feeling in two of her fingers. Bettie, while in confinement, got word to Haddad that she hoped to meet again some day and express her remorse. Haddad said no thanks...